Journalist who filed fake report found hanged

A Sky News correspondent who lost his job after faking a report during the war in Iraq has been found hanged.

James Forlong, an award-winning reporter who covered many of the world's trouble spots for the channel, was devastated at being exposed in a documentary on a rival channel three months ago. His wife Elaine said: "James had been shattered by the blow to his career. He deeply felt the loss of his job."

Forlong, 44, a father of two, was found at the family home in East Sussex by his wife at the weekend. Police said the circumstances did not appear to be suspicious.

Forlong's report purported to show a Royal Navy submarine firing a missile at sea during the Iraq war. The pooled report was shown on ITV and channels around the world as well as Sky.

A BBC documentary revealed that Forlong had been filing from a vessel in dock and that the vessel had not fired a missile while he was on board. Images of the missile flying through the air were taken from archive footage.